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Unit 1: Why Economics?
Part 1: Scarcity and other FUNDAMENTAL concepts
#1 "SPENT"
#2 "Budget & Invest"
#3 "YOu're going to college"
Part 2: Specialization, Trade, and Production
Article Assignment (repeats)
#1 "Absolute & Comparative advantage"
#2 "International Trade"
#3 "The Trade experiment"
#4 "Think like a country"
#5 Quiz Prep Questions
#6 Quiz Review
Part 3: Economic systems
#1 Economic Systems Project
#2 "Capitalism Hurts"
#3 Economists & Theories Reading
#4 "Island society"
#5 Current event: "Plastic bag ban"
#6 Unit 1 Essay
UNit 2: microeconomics
Part 1: SUpply & demand
#1 Econ Class Auction
#2 Demand Worksheet 1
#3 Demand Worksheet 2
#4 Demand worksheet 3
#5 Supply worksheet 1
#6 "Strategies for success"
#7 Quiz review
Stock Market game begins
Part 2: Equilibrium
#1 Equilibrium worksheet 1
#2 the "paper clip Exchange"
#3 "Surplus & Shortage around us"
#4 Price Floor & ceiling worksheet
#5 Quiz Review
Unit 3: Macroeconomics
Part 1: The three goals of macro-Econ
#1 economy infographics
#2 Growth worksheet & "PPP Explained" Article
#3 Economic Convergence Case Study
#4 Is growth unsustainable?
#5 Unemployment game
#6 Unemployment worksheet
#7 google public data Explorer
#8 Quiz review
Part 2: Money, Banks, & Investing
#1 The Barter game
#2 "The great carol comeback"
Part 3: Government Manipulation of the economy
#1 Fix the economy!
#2 Monetary Policy Reading
#3 Fiscal Policy Reading
#4 Monetary & Fiscal Policy Questions
#5 Keynes vs. Hayek rap battle
#6 Economic Policies Project (Final!)